AFTER HITCHCOCK – MICRORELATOS

[English]
It is said that Hitchcock always wanted to film “Rear Window” in a natural location but finally did it in an artificial stage setting, which was the largest setting Paramount had ever built back then. The film industry was always prodigal in fictitious architecture. In the present the reality seems to be built as an enormous setting in which the society of spectacle unfolds and shines… welcome to the desert of the real. The photographs of this series refer to this paradox.

These images were taken in different cities around the world with a photo and a video camera. In Madrid, the security guards of the building I was filming, were alerted by its own surveillance cameras. They approached and interrogated me and I lied like a rug as I spoke of the evening afterglow, the reflection of the moon in the windows of this spectacular building and finally they were convinced that their building was an architectural jewel that had to be shown to the world. But in reality I was spying on them and did not photograph the architecture but the people in the building, where their transparent walls permitted me to peak inside.